The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-13
noFpIc1AL BULLETIN NO. 1.


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OFFICIAL BULLETIN NO. l.
uoodouarters American and Northern
,raTico and D. c., New York City, July
1st, 1881" .,,,oouoon+ orne. 70
:, oiaring type the following: -.
Ii nerieans, Read, Read and Act!
Tho Latest Mexican Outrage OF an
LIZ tueorican and His Wife and Daughter,
net Returned from Mexican
yuo, Four their Companions
5is of Smallpox in the Black
W. Iio at Paso Del Norte.
W Wo Then follow kilograms
i-on, Wichita, Kansas, of June 28th,
atotino that A. B. Bird, of New York
C;tv and an opera troupe which he
no! managing, has been thrown into
; vi at Paso Del Norte, land confined for
y long time, four of the company dying
go smallpox. The bulletin closes
ritb This language: The above Asso-
o;oiad press telegram was published in
.bo dailv press on Wednesday, June
Sotb Int was closely followed by a
snsc;al telegram from Washington with
4bo consoIing information that the
State Department poohpooheo at
This last reported Mexican outrage:
Since the advent OF the present
Democratic administration, hall nun
dred cases of false imprisonment ana
The murder Of American clClzenS IN
semi-barbaric Mexico, accompanied by
sworn statements OF many witnesses
nave been officially reported to the
State department at Washington and
M to this moment no indemnity. no
reDaration, 10 satisfaction whatever,
Aas beeu demanded of Mexico by our
government. Is it not time for all true
Americans TO rise in their might, and
call halt to the greaser OF Mexico and
again administer the lesson of 1884 and
1886. and let this second lesson ne one
that will never have its scar effaced,
nor its efficacy questioned?
(SiGned)
By order Executive Committee"
When the WiCnIta dispatch was first
published, the mayor of the Provincio
Of PasO Del NOrte and Consul Brigham
we're interviewed and both pronounced
Birds story malicious lie. The grain
Of truth in this falsehood is this: Last
January, company of young men
from the city of Mexico, calling them
selves the spanish Students" arrived
sitter tour through Mexico. They
were under contract to play Paso Del
Norte. On the evening set for the per-
torrance, an audience assembled, but
owing to some disagreement in pay
ment, the Students" refused
to sing and according to the
Mexican statute, were thrown
into jail. A member of the company
named Suarez, who is now employed in
store in Paso Del Norte, and resides
Ii FL Paso, was interviewed to-day, and
said: I'VE we're in Jail about an hour,
when all we're liberated on bail.
wealthy Spaniard going on our bonds.
Inc troupe consisted of nine Spaniards
ana hve MeXicsns, but no Americans.
Two days alter our Imprisonment, the
enure troupe performed in Ell Paso,
ana later at Paso Del Norte, where the
company broke up, six OF the Spaniards
gShg TO California and later to Denver.
me remainder of the company, except
myself, went back to the City of Mex
Co' NO one by the name of Bird was
connected with the company" 1t is
supposed that Cuttings committee"
: uoodlng the frontier with these bull
leu Guns, calculated to rouse luminosity.
g Ile cllzens OF Ell Paso and Paso Del
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